That’s stupid. That’s like saying that a certain band can’t play their music anymore because it didn’t have “enough hits”

I want a ficlets plushie… :(

And I agree that that’s stupid. But, alas, the AOL powers do not understand this little website we’ve all come to love so deeply…

It is stupid. I mean, not enough hits?! That’s like saying someone can’t publish the Great American Novel because it doesn’t have enough words!

this is what the AOL people said:
http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/02/ficlets-will-be-shut-down-permanently/

Read this too: http://www.drdzoe.com/?p=112

and especially this: http://anti-aol.livejournal.com/101755.html